Since when was racist bullying the only 'wrong' form of bullying?

Which is worse: bullying a child because they're a) black, b) pretty, c) clever or d) they have big blubbery lips?

Before you answer, have a look at Bullyonline – a web site devoted to the dozens of children who have died, or nearly died, as a result of bullying by their peers. Here is 13-year old Salvation Army girl Kelly Yeomans, who took a fatal overdose. There is Alistair Hunter, 12, who hanged himself after being spat on by bullies who used to urinate in his sports bag.

Perhaps some of the children on that heartbreaking list died as a result of racist abuse; or possibly, as a result of those nearly-but-not-quite-as-heinous modern crimes, "homophobia" or "disablism". The majority, though, did not.

They were teased for the same reasons children have been teased since time immemorial: because they had a weakness which could be exploited.

In my case, my crime was to have big, blubbery lips. Never once did it occur to me that this might have been quite a sexy, Jaggeresque quality: all I could ever think of was how vile and ugly I looked and how dearly I wished that my lips were "normal."

Why did I wish this? Because the bullies who repeatedly called me "Blubber Lips" spoke the phrase with such hatred, venom and disgust that I knew they must be right.

Did I suffer any more or less than a child bullied for the colour of their skin or for being a complete spaz at sports? I don't know. And here's the thing: nor do YOU know. Nor, in fact, does ANYONE know.

This is precisely what is wrong with treating "racist" bullying as more heinous than any other form of bullying. It is based on a completely unprovable assumption which you can only make with confidence if you're either a self-hating (what other kind is there?) white liberal or a card-carrying member of the minority grievance industry.

Reading the case of the 15-year old boy taken to court for repeatedly calling a female classmate "wog", "coon", "gorilla" and "golliwog", I don't think any of us could be in any doubt that the bully was a thoroughly nasty piece of work. I'm glad the poor girl has finally been freed of her tormentor. But I still don't understand what this case was doing in Lincoln magistrate's court – rather than being dealt with, as all such cases should, within the school system.

Or rather I do, all too well. It has to do with the dreaded "r" word. If racism had not been involved, there is no way a 15-year old boy would have faced criminal prosecution. The disgusting and morally purblind double standards here are wholly characteristic of New Labour and its politically correct decision to "privilege" (as your typical Libtard would say) certain types of crime over others.

Kill someone because they're black or gay and you face a stiffer sentence than you would if you killed them, say, because you didn't like their poncy, upper-class accent.